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South Pacific, watches Susie Mitchell,HOPE TERRELL, director ofdaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mitchell, and Hilly Klein, son of Mr. andMrs. Jean Klein, rehearse. The volcano mountain top is Bali Hai. Itwas painted by Jean Love.Always One More Play forDirector of South Pacificothe;idefel-;idesoinnilarBy Barbara Lacy She tried out for Little Theater's first play, Blithe Spirit, when she was seven and a half months pregnant.Her daughter, Lisa, now seven, was born two weeks before opening night and the show went on as planned. Since then she has acted in, worked on or directed 18 of the 24 plays produced by Little Theater. She is directing Little Theater's South Pacific, which opens Friday night, and runs Saturday and April 28-29.She thinks that if one of her three children wanted to try for a career on Broadway or in Hollywood it would be marvelous. Already they have each been in one or more of Little Theater's plays.“I have that much ham in me,I guess,'' Mrs. Terrell said with a smile. “I love Little Theater and I always have, since my high school dramadays here.Looking at her children in the next room where Jamie, 14, and Terri, 11, were listening to Lisa read aloud, she said: They've been orphans lately. When a show’s on, it's a day and night thing, especially since my husband, Jim, is in this one, too.Is it hard to direct your husband?I don't know what to say. He was quite upset with me the first night. I slipped and called him honey on stage and the men really razzed him. On the way home he asked if Iplease , would oall him JinnSouth Pacific is a fun show to do. It's not hard technically because there aren't too many different sets and it doesn't take place in a foreign country. It’s all very gay.One of my greatest joys is having Mary and Gordon Beaver back as duo pianists. This is their third year in a row. They've really taken a load off me. Also Bob Williamson and Carole Clayton are a big help. They act as vocal coordinators.We’re having full rehearsals every night this week. If you want to see something hectic you ought to try and hide 50 people behind the curtain at Middle school when they aren't on stage.It takes at least 50 people backstage to produce a show, that's not counting the actors. In South Pacific we have 38 performers and the 50 backstage.”Mrs. Terrell was active in the high school drama club. She and her husband are Sikeston natives. He is employed by ReissDairy.My one dream is for Sikeston to have an auditorium. Everyone who knows me knows this, Mrs. Terrell said. I don't want one just for Little Theater, but for Community Choir, Art League, and other community projects. It's ashame that Sikeston doesn't have an adequate place for cultural programs.Something else Pd like for Sikeston is a year around cultural program with a production of some sort once amonth. It could be a one-man art show, a play, a community choir program, a children's play. With different civic groups in charge of each month, it would be very easy to put together.We could do it. Sikeston’s got the talent. We've got talent here we’ve never tapped, especially among the new people and the children.Children are more interested in the arts now than ever before, I believe. We should go after them while they are here so that when they leave home they will have had some experience.We keep talking about a ‘little’ Little Theater for college age students and younger children. With as many college students as we have home in the summer we could have at least one summer production, sort of a summer stock program. There are too few places for children to show off their talent around here. I would have loved something like this when I was a high school studfent tee. 1 Pd* Iflce1' tdsfee''theih 'do Teter Pan of the*Wizard of Oz.But so far, it’s just talk. Talking does get results she admitted.That's the way we get most of our new people in Little Theater, she explained. You ask a friend to help backstage and he usually does. But he wouldn't have volunteered. Idon't know why people stand back. Any organization can always use new blood. There is a place for everyone; if they can wiggle their little finger, they can do something for Little TTieater.Her enthusiasm for Little Theater is boundless. While each play is exciting, there is always one more to think about.Someday Pd like to do MyFair Lady, she enthused. It would be hard, Pm sure, especially in this area. It's hard to find an English accent around here, especially since we are amateurs.Another one Pd like to do is Showboat and possibly Oklahoma. And do you know, Pve always dreamed of doing Brig-adoon in the high school band shell. I think it would work out marvelously there.She sighed, I always think big about Little Theater. How do you know what you can do until you try?HospitalNotesPatients admitted to the Missouri Delta Community hospital 4-18-67:Ruth Joyce, Sikeston Farris Kelso, Sikeston Lee Hodges, Sr., Sikeston J.C. Dover, Bell City Beverly Hale, East Prairie Wade Miller, Benton Martha McConnaughhay, EssexWest Walker, Bloomfield Maude Hargrave, Sikeston Cecile Greenwood, Sikeston Bessie Johnson, Sikeston Lois Freeman, Sikeston Katherine Cox, Charleston Sonia Hunter, New Madrid Winford Hare, EssexPatients discharged from the Missouri Delta community hospital 4-18-67:James Mitchell, Charleston Egweet Roberson, Sikeston James Neighbors, Sikeston Harry A. Parks, East Prairie Bryon Gilbow, SikestonCtele^tQAMafy [L. Cnildress, sikeston John Burchfield, Kewanee Bill Looney, Sikeston Lou F. Kerner, East Prairie Baby Boy Dowdy, East Prairie Charles Eaton, Sikeston Mrs. Beverly Young and Baby Boy, Morehouse Mrs. Norma McAtee and Baby Boy, ClarktonMrs. Loretta Skelton and Baby Boy, BertrandMrs. Truman Long, Mrs Luella McDermott and Huber Strieker, all of Charleston have been discharged from St Mary's hospital in Cairo.Mrs. Rosemary Glass o; Charleston has been admittec to St. Mary's hospital.Lyndell McCullough of Ad. vance, Mrs. Ivy Mills of Lil. bourn and Stanley Woods ol Sikeston have been admitted tc Southeast Missouri hospital in Cape Girardeau.David Lee, Ellen Lee, both of Malden, Miss Mary Urhahn of Oran and Miss Dane Felter of Benton have been admitted
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